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Effect, by Introducing Bundle to Prevent Influenza and Visualization of Countermeasure by Flowchart

Yoshiko SUZUKI¹⁾ and Yasujiro MATSUNAGA²⁾
¹⁾Kasukabe Chuo General Hospital Infection Control team, ²⁾Kasukabe Chuo General Hospital Pulmonary Medicine

Around October each year, when the outbreak of influenza is expected, medical institutions and other health facilities strengthen preventive measures. At our hospital, in the second week of Heisei 26 (fiscal Heisei 25), outbreaks of influenza exceeded 10% on the same floor. Based on this experience, we focused on two of the initial responses. First, we bundled the awareness-raising activities for the staff on a monthly basis, and used an "influenza preventive measure calendar" to inform each division. Next, to promote the standardization of the response to the person who has a fever, the correspondence has been made into a flowchart. In fiscal Heisei 26, horizontal infection was recognized in one department, but was contained without the expansion of the infection to other wards. In fiscal Heisei 27, based on the lessons learned from the previous year, we added restrictions on interactions among patients to the bundle and got results without any further outbreaks.

Key words：outbreak, bundle, flowchart, visualization, standardization

e-mail: infection-cntrol＠kasukabechuo.com

Received: August 2, 2017
Accepted: April 9, 2018

33 (4)：173─181,2018